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Autore |
Pickering Samuel F. <1941-> |
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Titolo |
Indian summer : musings on the gift of life / / Sam Pickering |
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Columbia : , : University of Missouri Press, , 2005 |
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©2005 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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American essays |
English essays |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Early April -- Alone -- Maintenance -- June -- In the good summertime -- Changing -- Wrong number -- What? -- Toolless -- Writers' colony -- Dog days -- A brown bird sang in the apple tree -- Lasting -- Raking -- Absurd -- Time for Black & Decker -- End papers. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Indian Summer is the newest collection of personal essays by Sam Pickering. In typical Pickering fashion, he seeks to capture the gift of living. He brings to the page again his family, students, and a wealth of country characters who live in places that exist only in his imagination and who wander through the stories he tells." "He describes how his life has been altered by his children leaving home for college, and he ponders the changes aging brings and the things that never change. The consummate teacher, he celebrates academic life and the pleasures of the classroom. Readers will roam familiar ground with Pickering as he explores the fields and small hills of eastern Connecticut and the bogs and woods on his farm in Nova Scotia."--Jacket |
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